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The widening and deepening of the curriculum and the understanding and possible adoption of alternative viewpoints are wholly admirable. ... What we are lacking is the economic and political structures to drive the radical changes in expectations and

So a process began to reframe conservation concerns in the context of human concerns, using concepts such as natural capital, corporate partnerships and market-based instruments to give conservation economic value. ... It’s this awareness that is

levels. Between 2017 and 2019, she co-led a £1m Economic and Social Research Council project, together with Professor Peter Wade from the University of Manchester, investigating anti-racist practices and ... Then came calls from students to decolonise

resources, genetic research and environmental economics.” And she has tackled social issues head on. ... Just a few years later, I was proud to host a discussion around decolonising the curriculum, with academics including Professor Mónica Moreno

However, in the past few years, this quest has become more searching, as academics and students endeavour to ‘decolonise’ the curriculum. ... Drug dealers, mafia bosses and con artists are often considered economic success stories, but this doesn’t

Striking the right balance between delivering a knowledge-based curriculum and giving youngsters the chance to be heard remains a challenge, but one worth rising to. ... What is needed is the economic, political and social environment that will drive

Such a faculty could transform education and economic activity from stagnating to thriving and generating a socially beneficial people’s world order. ... I yearn for a time when curiosity and critical thinking take centre stage in order that a paradigm

Economics. Britpop, Ross and Rachel, cyber cafés, Cool Britannia, Tamagotchis and doing the Macarena. ... The Dasgupta Review is clear: to remain useful, the tools of economics must be reshaped with the natural world at their heart.

A central challenge is the invisibility of nature in the way global economic systems assign value. ... The second recommendation counsels that existing economic measures of success, such as GDP, must be fundamentally rethought.

Features. Regulars. Archive. From Cambridge to Kyiv: the economics of war and recovery. ... Many times, I’ve observed our president asking the relevant economic questions without the help of an economics professor.

And it would be funny, except that decolonising the curriculum is important, exciting and invigorating. ... That’s not necessarily demoting the individuals who are already in the canon or on the curriculum.

Indeed, for Martin Daunton, Emeritus Professor of Economic History, taxation goes to the heart of fundamental questions. ... It causes fewer economic distortions and raises more money with less damage to the economy.

Coyle has long advocated replacing or supplementing GDP, currently our main measure of economic success. ... Diane Coyle’s latest book, Markets, State and People – Economics for Public Policy, examines how societies reach decisions about the use and

Toggle navigation. Information. Features. Regulars. Archive. Issue Archive. The University's alumni magazine. Reinvigorating the art of the spirited essay, CAM brings together the best of Cambridge thought and debate. Published three times a year,

In a world where many feel that the economic and political odds are stacked against them, a new groundbreaking institute has been launched in Cambridge with the aim of finding solutions ... We live in an age of unprecedented disruption. More and more

Fast forward 35 years and Vira’s work reaches across disciplinary boundaries: economics, geography, public policy, conservation and international development. ... The question in my mind was whether the discipline I was specialising in, economics,

During the 1980s, with economic upset in developing countries, the World Bank brought in structural adjustment, moving housing policy towards a neoliberal, capitalist system based on market price and competition. ... We need to align planning, economic

Dasgupta Review. A new report on the economics of biodiversity could help set the agenda for the UK Government’s 25-year environment plan. ... Produced by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, the report describes nature as “our most precious asset” and

Download. The Dasgupta Review is clear: to remain useful, the tools of economics must be reshaped with the natural world at their heart.

Dr Victoria Bateman. Director of Studies in Economics, Caius. Trade is no longer a specialist issue: these days, we’re all talking about negotiation and tariffs. ... Trade Talk is hosted by journalist Soumaya Keynes (The Economist) and Chad Bown

In brief. Janeway Institute. The new Weslie and William Janeway Institute for Economics has launched with a remit to transform economic research.

Identify and admit the best. Second, we must have the systems in place to identify and admit the very best undergraduates, including those who have suffered real socio-economic and educational

This programme, run by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), is designed to bring together impartial academic research on the changing UK-EU relationship and, crucially, to make it accessible ... and economic consequences,” she says.

Most importantly, though, I want them to think of fascism as an intellectual and cultural, rather than a purely political or socio-economic, phenomenon – to look beyond the unemployment figures of

It will enable Cambridge to offer greater financial support to students who have experienced socio-economic and educational disadvantage, and enable investment in actively attracting students from under-represented groups.

In 2017, I began a PhD, investigating the social, political and economic impact of digital tools used to help refugees find their way through migration and settle into their new homes.

These pro-sumers – people who are more actively involved in the economic process – are driving things such as the sharing economy, where we can directly trade spare assets with each other ... Growth must happen to maintain the west’s economic system

And this, we know beyond doubt, is at the heart of social and economic transformation.

That is an amazingly achievable and realistic goal for dementia treatment, which would have a huge social and economic impact.”.

Tweet of the term. “Jobs, skills, wages, equality, economics, politics, society, contentment, unrest, conflict and everything else summed up in one paragraph” – Jonny Aldridge (Homerton 2008) on CAM’s take on

You can feel the anxiety leave the room.”. Left to right: Emily Chung, St John’s, MPhil Economic and Social History; Raphaël Kalfon, Trinity, Master’s Mathematics; and Gabrielle Kurniawan,

By contrast, when refugees are given the opportunity to establish microbusinesses (something not always encouraged, due to governmental fears about temporary settlements becoming permanent) it creates economic activity and helps people

just GDP as a measure of economic prosperity.

while the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) went to Christ’s, the London School of Economics (LSE) to Peterhouse, Bedford College to Newnham, and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical ... London School of Economics cricket team in Cambridge,

But after 2000, curriculums changed. There is a feeling today that Germans have atoned for, and overcome, their antisemitism.

There’s a growing sense that a lot of the economic orthodoxies of that period have been extremely damaging, especially in light of the global financial crisis and what’s happened ... The Dasgupta Review is clear: to remain useful, the tools of

Accessibility isn’t just physical, but socio-economic,” she says, explaining that spoken word can reach out and touch all parts of society, “the homeless; those recovering from addiction.

That intersectionality – taking into account human factors such as ethnicity, sexuality and economic background – is vital to understanding feminism in 2018.

There are many state precedents (governments have long used economic sanctions as an instrument of statecraft) but – and this is my fourth proposal, aimed at non-state actors – it may even

Happily, he soon got back on track, reselling bicycles to freshers while an undergraduate studying economics.).

Grants will be awarded to undergraduate teams developing inventive technology- and engineering-driven ideas which could boost economic growth in the developing world.

But in playing out these questions in the private lives of her characters, Austen reminds us that economics is not just a matter for opinion and discussion, but of real life.

It has supported ground-breaking research into treating Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, addressing global biodiversity loss and gaining a deeper understanding of the economic challenges of African nations.

But now Hughes’ Economic and Social Research Councilfunded Ready or Not study is tracking several hundred pupils from Reception to Year 1, using a seven-point questionnaire that asks how they

They will study a challenging and engaging multidisciplinary curriculum that will prepare them for undergraduate study in arts, humanities and social sciences subjects.

It’s a book by an economist based on detailed observation of how specific markets work, and it paints a much richer picture of what economics is about than you’d

There is a techno-utopian idea that capitalism will solve the problem for us, without any need for fundamental social and economic transformation. ... I worry about the techno-utopian idea that capitalism will generate technologies that will solve the

Professor of Regional Transformation and Economic Security, at the Department of Land Economy.

Being curious, together.” She would go on to co-write the curriculum for genomic counselling training in England.

The economic struggles of towns and regions that once drove the Industrial Revolution are well known.